Lorient 2-1 Saint-Étienne: result and report

Lorient 2-1 Saint-Étienne

Ligue 1 · Saturday 17 December 2016, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Lorient beat Saint-Étienne 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Saturday 17 December 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.

R. Philippoteaux opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Lorient's goals came from R. Philippoteaux (39') and Jimmy Cabot (90'). Saint-Étienne scored through Vincent Pajot (90+2').

Discipline: Lorient received 4 yellow cards; Saint-Étienne received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Lorient were 20th on 12 points from 17 and Saint-Étienne 7th on 26 points from 17. Lorient went on to finish that season 18th with 36 points, and Saint-Étienne 7th with 51.

Lorient lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Saint-Étienne in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jimmy Cabot of Lorient (7.8), level with Anthony Maisonnial (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Lorient wins, 0 draws and 6 for Saint-Étienne.

Going into the match Lorient's last five read L-D-W-D-L and Saint-Étienne's W-L-D-W-L.